Ivan Harbour
Patron
Ivan is an architect and senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
Drawing has been central to many of my formative experiences, whether expressing myself as a child, or designing buildings in later life... I feel honoured to be part of an organisation which reminds us what a powerful communication tool we have evolved with and how it remains absolutely relevant in our modern world.
Ivan Harbour
He began his career on Lloyd’s of London and subsequently led the design of the European Court of Human Rights and Bordeaux Law Courts. He was a director in the practice from 1993, and he is a founding partner of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, established in 2007.
His work spans many building types, from airports to low cost housing, where the designs share a common belief that successful buildings pay the greatest respect to those that use them.
Everyone can draw. There is no such thing as a bad drawing; it doesn’t require you to have accurate syntax or grammar. It’s universal enough that you can have a wobbly line or a straight one – it really doesn’t matter.
Ivan Harbour